New Delhi: The Delhi high court has upheld the life imprisonment awarded to five convicts in the sensational 2010 Dhaula Kuan gangrape case of a 30-year-old woman executive from the Northeast working for a BPO.
A bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and PS Teji dismissed the appeals of five convicts and said that not only was the victim’s testimony sufficient, but her deposition was also corroborated by her friend, who was with her at the time of abduction, and her employer.
The bench handed down the jail term to Usman alias Kale, Shamshad alias Khutkan, Shahid alias Chhota Billi, Iqbal alias Bada Billi and Kamruddin alias Mobile, all residents of Mewat region in Haryana.
It said the prosecution has been able to establish all the charges against the convicts who have failed to make out any ground in support of their appeal and the same deserves dismissal.
The bench said that from the woman’s testimony, the prosecution has established that on the night of November 23 -24, 2010, the five men had kidnapped the victim near Sharma Automobiles in south Delh’s Moti Bagh, took her in a pick-up van and raped her in the moving vehicle. The incident took place when she along with a friend was returning home from their office in Gurgaon and were just dropped by the office cab.
The convicts then took her to Mangolpuri and gangraped her.
